Chimnabai II explained

Maharani Chimnabai II (1872 – 23 August 1958) was a queen and the second wife Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad of the princely state of Baroda, Gujarat, British India. She is the author of the treatise The position of Women in Indian Life (1911), and was the first president of the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927-1928, as well as the president of the National Council of Women in India in 1928-1937.

Biography

Shrimant Gajarabai became Chimnabai II upon marrying Sayajirao Gaekwad in 1885.^[1]

A progressive woman, she worked toward education for girls, abolishing the purdah system and child marriage, and became the first president of the AIWC in 1927.^{[2] [3]} She is the author of the treatise The position of Women in Indian Life (1911).^[4]

Her daughter Indira Devi became the consort of Jitendra Narayan, Maharajah of Cooch Behar.^[5]

Works

• Book: Chimnabai II (Maharani of Baroda.). Siddha Mohana Mitra. Position Of Women In Indian Life. 1911. Longman's, Green & Co.. New York.

Further reading

• Moore, Lucy (2004) Maharanis: the lives and times of three generations of Indian princesses. London: Viking
• Book: Weeden . Edward St Clair . A year with the Gaekwar of Baroda . 1911 . Boston : D. Estes & Co. .

Notes and References

1. Book: Taylor, Miles . https://books.google.com/books?id=radvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202 . Empress: Queen Victoria and India . 2018 . Yale University Press . 978-0-300-11809-4 . New Haven . 202 . en . 9. Mother of India.
2. Web site: Past Presidents . AIWC: All India Women's Conference . 2014-03-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140319132613/http://www.aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.html . 19 March 2014 . dmy-all .
3. Book: Geraldine Forbes. Geraldine Hancock Forbes. Women in Modern India. 28 April 1999. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-65377-0. 79–.
4. Book: Jhala . Angma Dey . Towheed . Shafquat . New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947 . 2014 . Columbia University Press . 978-3-8382-5673-3 . 193–209 . https://books.google.com/books?id=qFcxBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 . en . 8. Memoirs of Maharanis: the politics of marriage, companionship, and love in late-colonial princely India .
5. Book: Poddar . Abhishek . Gaskell . Nathaniel . Pramod Kumar . K. G . Museum of Art & Photography (Bangalore . India) . Maharanis: women of royal India . 2015 . Mapin Publishing. Ahmedabad . 978-93-85360-06-0 . Catalogue. 75–105 . 932267190 . English.